18th HAYAH International Short Film Festival of Panama
The oldest and most significant short film festival in Central America, dedicated to the promotion of cinematic talent in the short film format.
Our mission is to foster the growth of Panama's audiovisual industry by connecting its filmmakers with the global film community and providing a premier exhibition platform for local and international works.
AIFFI® – International Festival for AI-Generated Short Films
The inaugural edition of AIFFI® will take place on November 15–16, 2025, on the Caribbean island of Roatán, Honduras, marking the first international film festival in Central America exclusively dedicated to cinema created with artificial intelligence.
Conceived as a hybrid cinematic experience, AIFFI® merges physical screenings with global digital access. The festival is a celebration of the evolving language of cinema in the era of emerging technologies—bringing together filmmakers, technologists, visual artists, and visionary creators who explore storytelling through generative tools and AI-enhanced workflows.
From Central America to the world, AIFFI® positions the region as a growing epicenter of artificial cinema. With a forward-looking mission to collaborate with global film and tech leaders, the festival becomes a launchpad for groundbreaking creators and bold experimentation at the intersection of art, code, and narrative.
The curated program will include official competition selections, industry roundtables, immersive showcases, and open dialogues between artists, developers, and cultural institutions. Framed by the vibrant identity and natural beauty of Roatán, AIFFI® offers an inclusive, decentralized space to reimagine the future of filmmaking.
Over $10,000 USD in awards will be granted across the official categories, celebrating artistic merit, technological innovation, and narrative excellence in AI-powered short films.
For full details, visit: www.aiffi.org
MÓSTOLES FANTERROR SHORTFEST
Calabaza Films, in collaboration with the Department of Culture, Development, and Tourism Promotion of the Móstoles City Council, announces the First Short Film Festival called “Móstoles FanTerror ShortFest,” aimed at promoting the short film as a cinematic format and the genres of horror and fantasy.
Requirements:
Fiction, animation, or documentary short films produced from January 1, 2024, whose theme is related to fantasy and horror cinema.
Short films must not have a duration of less than one minute (1 min.), including end credits, nor a duration exceeding twenty minutes (20 min.).
Filmmakers from anywhere in the world may participate in this Festival; however, short films shot in a language other than Spanish must include Spanish subtitles.
This is an excerpt from the rules. Please consult the official call for more information.
Nearly 30 festivals from 20 countries will participate in the 29th edition of the festival through this initiative, in collaboration with Festhome.
The Festival de Málaga, organized by Málaga City Council through Málaga Procultura, has launched the new Ibershorts Award, whose first edition will take place during its 29th edition, to be held from March 6 to 15, 2026.
The complete rules and regulations are available on the festival’s official website, and submissions must be made through the Festhome platform until November 30.
Ibershorts is an initiative by the Festival de Málaga, in partnership with Festhome, aimed at promoting and giving visibility to Ibero-American fiction and animation short films.
This new award, which will be integrated into the festival’s official program, seeks to recognize the quality and diversity of short films produced in Ibero-American countries, including Portugal and excluding Spain.
Through this initiative, the Festival de Málaga reinforces its Ibero-American vocation and builds a network of strategic alliances with leading festivals, creating new opportunities for filmmakers and consolidating an international visibility circuit for short films.
A total of 29 festivals from 20 countries have joined the call. Each festival may submit up to two award-winning short films from its most recent edition, which will automatically become eligible alongside other winning titles.
A joint committee appointed by the Festival de Málaga and Festhome will select five finalists, which will be screened during the festival’s 29th edition.
The winner of the Ibershorts Award will receive the Silver Biznaga for Best Ibero-American Fiction Short Film 2025, presented at the official short film awards gala of the festival.
In addition, the five selected short films will take part in the Málaga Short Corner, an initiative integrated within MAFIZ / Spanish Screenings Content, where they will participate in industry screenings and professional activities.
XI Short Festival El Palo for short filmmakers born / as and / or residents in Málaga (Spain).
ONLY FOR SPANISH FILMMAKERS (Malaga) // Solo podrán presentarse al concurso cortometrajistas nacidos y/o residentes en la provincia de Málaga.
"Identity and Cultural Diversity".
We understand identity as a process of change and constant search, which nurtures cultural diversity and questions traditional icons. And we understand cinema as a reflection of peoples, their cultures and identities.
We understand cultural diversity as a force that promotes community empathy and enriches people's daily lives.
Galápagos International Film Festival – GIFF
Islands that tell stories. Cinema that connects.
The Galápagos International Film Festival (GIFF) is an initiative by Artchipiélago created with the goal of positioning the Galápagos Islands as a film and cultural destination, providing a platform for the promotion of national and international cinema with a human and environmental focus. The second edition of GIFF will take place from October 31 to November 7, 2025.
Perspectives – Montluçon International Film Festival is an international feature film festival dedicated to emerging cinematic creation. We are looking for bold and innovative films from both France and abroad.
The festival will take place at the Le Palace cinema in Montluçon, in the Allier region of France.
In addition to the competition, the festival also features two retrospective sections, showcasing films produced between the 1990s and 2010s.
BLEU PARIS is an independent international film festival dedicated to films in which the color blue plays a central artistic, emotional, or symbolic role.
Created in Paris, the festival celebrates emerging cinema, singular artistic visions, and bold storytelling through carefully curated screenings bringing together filmmakers, artists, and audiences around a shared fascination for the many shades of blue.
The 5th edition, entitled Furiously Blue, will take place on March 5–6, 2027, in a renowned Parisian cinema.
The festival is structured around three sections:
• Official Selection — short films (1–25 min) competing for the Blue Prize and the Audience Award
• Mid-Length Selection — mid-length films (26–60 min) competing for the Mid-Length Jury Prize
• Blue Laboratory — an off-competition program dedicated to experimental, daring, and unconventional works
The Blue Prize includes a €300 financial grant made possible thanks to the support of the festival’s sponsor.
BLEU PARIS welcomes professional and independent filmmakers from all countries and backgrounds.
More than a competition, BLEU PARIS aims to create a poetic, cinematic, and immersive experience where blue becomes a language of its own.
Africa’s Voices of Change Film Festival (AVOCFF) is an impact-driven film festival based in Nigeria, with a focus on children’s rights, disability inclusion, and public health. Through carefully selected films, live discussions, and youth-led workshops, AVOCFF uses cinema as a tool for Social and Behaviour Change Communication (SBCC) and community engagement.
Launched in 2024 by Tropism Ideas Ltd, AVOCFF brings together filmmakers, advocates, and policy actors to highlight overlooked issues and drive constructive dialogue. The festival centres human stories that prompt reflection, encourage civic action, and contribute to conversations that shape future advocacy and policy work.
Visões do Mar – Niterói International Documentary Festival is an event dedicated to the screening, reflection, and celebration of documentaries that explore the relationships between the oceans, coastal communities, identity, and culture within traditional ways of life connected to the sea.
The first edition will take place from November 17 to 22, 2025, in various cultural venues across the city of Niterói (RJ), Brazil.
1. OBJECTIVES
Festival goals:
Promote documentary cinema as a tool for social and environmental transformation;
Highlight the role of artisanal extractive communities as guardians of coastal biomes;
Give visibility to diverse narratives about the sea, its urgencies, cosmovisions, and the territories that depend on it;
Encourage the production and circulation of Latin American documentaries focused on socio-environmental justice.
2. TRAINING ACTIVITIES
As a core commitment of Visões do Mar, we will carry out a series of educational activities with both audiovisual students from Niterói’s public schools and professional filmmakers from the city.
School Screenings
Mediated screenings for public school students, promoting dialogue on environmental education and coastal cultures.
Documentary Lab – Niterói-Based Filmmakers
Exclusive training for audiovisual professionals from Niterói:
Project Development
Pitching and Project Presentation
Distribution with Social Impact
The Luz del Desierto International Festival is an audiovisual Festival that aims to promote cinema within the country and abroad. The festival will take place in october with competition for feature films and short films, both fiction, animation and documentary. There will also be talks and workshops.
Muestra de Cine Social
Luminiscence.
Presentation
The Social Film Festival organized by Luminiscente Estudio since 2013 has no competitive character, our intention is to screen projects with a clear social commitment, bringing the works presented to the public closer so that a link can be created between filmmakers, the public and organizers.
OPEN CALL FOR ENTRIES / CONVOCATORIA CORTOMETRAJES _ MOSMOS 2026
MosMos (Mostra de Stop Motion de Sagunt) presenta su convocatoria Internacional 2026 para cortometrajes de animación con la técnica de Stop Motion organizadas por la Asociación Cultural Pausa Zulú con la colaboración de la Concejalía de Juventud de Ayuntamiento de Sagunto.
OPEN CALL FOR ENTRIES / SHORT FILM COMPETITION - MOSMOS 2026
MosMos (Sagunto Stop Motion Film Festival) presents its 2026 International Call for Short Films using the Stop Motion technique, organized by the Pausa Zulú Cultural Association in collaboration with the Sagunto City Council's Youth Department.
Welcome to our Fall Season that runs Monthly from October thru December 2026.
NewFilmmakers NY is New York's longest running year round Film Festival. Throughout it's twenty-eight year run NewFilmmakers has provided a platform for first time and veteran filmmakers.
We have taken an exciting new direction with NewFilmmakers called NewFilmmakersPlus which will move our festival into the digital age and allow us to reach international audiences.
While theaters have been closed, our online audiences have greatly exceeded those in theaters. With NewFilmmakers Plus we have added the missing audience participation to our online screenings.
Now filmmakers, cast, and crew as well as audience members can create interactive video screening rooms while watching a film. Just by pushing the START A GROUPVIEW button to the right of the film they can invite up to six people to talk about the film in a video conference. It’s almost like watching side-by-side in real life — without having to share your popcorn.
In addition our films will now be available for one month and screenable any time of the day instead of only one night. This allows more people to see our films and makes it easier to set up a screening event with friends and colleagues. As requested we are switching to filmmaker hosted files utilizing unlisted YouTube links which will eliminate the need to transcode and to send us large files as well as giving filmmakers control over their film.
In today’s world online screenings give filmmakers worldwide audiences instead of limited local ones. With NewFilmmakers Plus filmmakers not only reach worldwide audiences but can interact with them as they would at a traditional theater.
